Leadership Coach: Inspire Guides & Students On-site

Alpha School; Grand Prairie (TX); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support provided

Benefits from day one

Job summary

Alpha seeks a Leadership Coach to develop Guides who coach K-8 students using Alpha's coaching model. You will run weekly life-skills workshops, identify coaching opportunities through performance data, and drive measurable improvements across multiple campus sites.

As a full-time on-site leader, you will mentor Guides, manage a student cohort, and model high standards in a school that prioritizes outcomes, resilience, and leadership over traditional pedagogy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a related field.
• Has directly managed one or more adult employees on an ongoing basis.
• Has personally selected at least one candidate for hire into their team.
• Has personally taken and put in writing at least one specific corrective action, directed at a direct report, in response to that person's underperformance.
• Has personally formally proposed, with supporting justification, or approved the termination of at least one direct report for performance reasons.
• Willing to work in a school that deliberately rejects traditional pedagogy.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Build a coaching culture where exceptional Guides consistently develop students who love school, master academics at an accelerated pace, and build resilience, leadership, and life skills.
• Lead life skills workshops covering communication, focus, feedback, leadership, and resilience for K-8 students.
• Use performance data to identify coaching opportunities, remove barriers, and drive measurable improvements every week.
• Lead motivation sessions that help every student take ownership of ambitious goals and consistently achieve them.
• Maintain your own student cohort while modeling the coaching excellence and accountability you expect from every Guide.

Skills

Coaching

Leadership

Data-driven coaching

Team development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership

Job description

Alpha seeks a Leadership Coach to develop Guides who coach K-8 students using Alpha's coaching model. You will run weekly life-skills workshops, identify coaching opportunities through performance data, and drive measurable improvements across multiple campus sites.

As a full-time on-site leader, you will mentor Guides, manage a student cohort, and model high standards in a school that prioritizes outcomes, resilience, and leadership over traditional pedagogy.